John Trumbull Quotes

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

John Trumbull

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• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Hope
  • Know
  • Ought

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Know
  • Blessed

• On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Present
  • Flag
  • Indian

• At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • House
  • Air
  • Old

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Government
  • Security
  • How

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Morning

• It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Young

• Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Life
  • Friends
  • News

• For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Game
  • Rules
  • Artists

• Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Together
  • Control
  • Technology

• In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Jesus

• There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Life
  • Important
  • Education

• I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Environment

• I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.

  

  John Hurt
  • Good
  • Long
  • Character

• Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it: 1, It's me and my Nation against the World 2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation 3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan 4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation Go against the Fam until they cave in 5, Now who's left in this deadly equation? That's right, it's me against my Brother Then we point a Kalashnikov And kill one another.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • World
  • Violence
  • Brother

• But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

  

  John Trumbull